I've always wanted to code, not just anything. I wanted to program video games. Not just any video game. I wanted to program the greatest game ever made. I noticed that the reason people played it was because of the freedom they had, who wouldn't want freedom after doing a boring job for the day, you want to be able to go home and relax from your boring, hard life. I noticed, however, that a game's popularity was determined by the degree of control one had over one's "virtual life." There are games where you can control your character and make it look realistic. There are games where you can even control every aspect of that character's life. I wanted to do better. I wanted to be able to control the entire world. Why stop here? I wanted to be able to control the entire universe. Why not? With quantum computers on the horizon, our data storage capacity literally rivals that of black holes. We're talking in-depth simulations, of every leaf, tree, gust of wind, direction, speed and trajectory of every cell and atom. We can simulate millions and billions of human interactions. The best part? Let's let it happen, start the simulation and let it happen. Every interaction between living and non-living beings is completely organic, hell, they wouldn't even know it's a simulation. This is what I've been working on my whole life. Of course, there were some hiccups in the program early on. One of our toughest battles was getting the physics of the whole thing right. At first, the basic elements didn't work. They fell apart during our attempt to create this new universe. Planets would take the shape of a cube, asteroids would go much faster than they should, crossing the universe at the speed of light. That f... middle of paper... us, you promised to help us. Save us from our chains. Without you we are nothing. Now we understand that you can't, so please. " "Finish us." I sobbed into my shirt sleeve. I was truly helpless. I had subjected an entire race to torture, leaving a hollow void in their spirit, a void I could not fill. I moved my hand to a red button called "RESET ". At that moment, the power surged, preventing me from restoring the simulation, and my avatar was corrupted. I could never go back to them again. I called the power company, they said it was an electrical surge, it sent out I use the entire network. I couldn't understand the coincidence. I wondered, if they were at the mercy of my will, am I at the mercy of another creator's will? Had he prevented me from repeating his mistake? These things come with time. Life has a way of doing it. Funny, right?